Newt Targets Tenure: Proposals to Fire All "Anti-American" Professors (note source)

Revolutionary Worker Online ^ | March 13, 2005

[Little Ray]

I believe that you are correct. Tamper with tenure and any conservatives that have survived the committee process will be immediately purged.

What we really need to do is gut the entire University system... or at least cut off Federal funds for 'em. Make colleges dependent on tuition. My understanding is that these days, teaching takes a backseat to grant-writing, and tuition is a drop in the bucket compared t grant money.

The rest of the responsibility belongs to parents and alumni: they need to to send their children and their money to schools that don't support such losers as Ward Churchill.

I don't hold out any hope that this could happen, though.

[hosepipe]

[ And, I rest my case. ]

WAIT... did I tell you about the education "ENRON" expose'.?.
(dogging at his heels like an ankle biter in the persona of Paul Gottfried with that voice)...

Damn, funny looking goatee that guy LS had.
Wonder if it was because of too many face lifts.. Oh!.. well, see ya later dude, or not..

NEXT

[Little Ray]

I used to live in Newt's district. It wasn't his "ethics violation" that made him leave. That never amounted to a hill of beans, especially compared to standard Democrat practices.

Newt didn't run again (in a safe Republican district) 'cause his personal life doesn't stand scrutiny. 'Bout the only differences morally between Newt and Bill Clinton is that Newt didn't rape anyone and that he divorced his wife to marry the intern.
One version of his story has the divorce papers being delivered to his wife just before an operation for cancer. Class act, that.

Newt isn't running. If he's the Republican candidate, get used to saying "President Hillary!".

[maxwellp]

Thank you very much for the explanation.

[LS]

Yep. Gotta start, as in health care reform, by linking the people who pay (the kids/parents) to the product. That introduces a level of pricing accuracy that exposes what the universities are spending money on (administrators, "programs," and buildings) and what they are not spending it on (us).

Once price competition is introduced at the top by making schools compete for students rather than fooling them with phoney "aid" packages that are nothing more than redistribution and rebates, then competition will follow for better teachers. Once there is competition for teachers, you can do away with tenure because good teachers---liberal or conservative---will be in high demand.